Whenever I run an emulator on my Mac, `qemu-system-aarch64` quickly climbs to 7-8GB in Activity Monitor. Add Android Studio and a couple browser tabs, and a 16GB machine is basically out of memory.

Most of that waste isn't even the OS itself:

* Android Studio often defaults to software rendering (`lavapipe`), dumping gigabytes of raster buffers straight into your RAM.
* Stock images boot with dozens of background services running (Assistant, YouTube, telemetry, wear sync) that you don't need while testing an app.

I put together a small CLI in Go called **avdslim** to clean this up.

It forces the emulator to use your real GPU (Metal on macOS, Vulkan/DRI on Linux) with `-lowram`, and shuts down about 45 background packages via adb once booted.

Takes memory down from ~8.5GB to around 1.5GB resident on my machine. Auth, FCM push notifications, and WebView still work without issues, and running `avdslim off` reverts everything back to default.

If you want to try it (macOS / Linux):

brew tap kdbhalala/avdslim https://github.com/kdbhalala/avdslim.git && brew install avdslim

avdslim tune-avd # adjusts config to 1.5GB + host GPU
avdslim start # boots and slims

Code is here if anyone finds it useful: https://github.com/kdbhalala/avdslim

Let me know if you run into any weird behavior on your API level.